In Dallas Jake won some money from a soldier who reported that he had met a deputy sheriff from Arkansas. Memphis was shocked to be spurred into a run, but once he got started he ran with a will. However, by breakfast time everyone was usually so hungry they ate whatever they could get, complaining with every bite. The Captain went off to hire a crew.
He had been braced for a scratch night of brush-busting, but it seemed old Gus had a mind to spare him. Don't you tie me, nigger boy, he said. But she wouldn't, and he didn't think it was just because she was sick. What went with Luke? she asked him one day.
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